Its MAME Time
Today at work I got a huge urge to play Gauntlet Legends again. I have always wanted to buy my own GL arcade cabinet but never seem to find one in a conservative range. Finding a cabinet that did not require a three hour drive seemed impossible. So instead of giving up I decided to make it myself.
The first thing I did was was google mame and various other variants of it to find what I was looking for. I found a site called mameaddicts.com to be very helpful. I would also recommend this video How to Install MAME32 and load ROMs. I got mame up and running within minutes. It was very easy. The tricky part was trying to find a ROM for Gauntlet Legends that would work. It seems that some more modern arcade games need a CHD (basically a compressed image of the hard drive used in the original arcade cabinets).
After three hours searching for the GL CHD I found some in torrent form that no one seeded. I was feeling pretty down about it until I found Doug! Doug Burton is actually selling all of the ROMs and CHDs on burned DVDs. It is a fair service as he has them and I have money. Simple!
UPDATE: It seems that people have found Doug Burton to be a scam. However there are some people that say otherwise. Hard to say if the guy is legit.
So far my resources I have found are:
- Book - Project Arcade: Build Your Own Arcade Machine
Software - Doug’s Roms Burning Page- How To - The guys at the podcast Systm actually did it themselves. You can find Episode one, Episode two, Episode three, Episode four, and Episode five by clicking on the episode.
Seems like a great start to a great project. Heck, maybe I could even start selling the cabinets to people in my neck of the woods.
Oh and one more thing. Since I love to take my gaming to the next level after beating a game, I am providing the tips for GL in the rest of the post. Enjoy.
